The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed a challenge to Haryana’s Model Online Transfer Policy, holding that a transfer is an incident of service, that an employee has no vested right to a posting of choice, and that a transfer policy is only a guideline and is not legally enforceable under Article 226. The Court found the extra marks for ‘couple cases’ where a spouse is posted in Haryana, Chandigarh or Delhi to have a reasonable nexus to the objective, and neither arbitrary nor discriminatory.
The Chhattisgarh High Court held that once a government employee joins a transferred post, they lose any legal right to remain at or return to their previous posting. The Bench clarified that “the appellant has no legal right to remain at his previous place of posting once the transfer order has been implemented.”
